Sawn-Off Daimler

C Squadron’s experience since landing just after D-Day has taught the regiment that small, agile troops of scout cars can perform scouting duties better than the more cumbersome armored cars. As such, in July they organized so that each squadron would have six light platoons of two scout cars and three heavy troops of a scout car and two armored cars.

In order to fulfill the need for additional scout cars to meet the new squadrons’ demands, the crews and the divisional REME used their ingenuity to get us additional scout cars from our excess armored cars. Removing the turret and mud guards from a Daimler Armored Car lowers its weight and ground pressure enough to convert it to a versatile light reconnaissance vehicle. These field-modified cars are known as Sawn-off Daimlers, or simply SODs, within the Inns of Court.